naufragate means to wreck (something). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 100 out of 100.
Why “naufragate” is a great word
NAUFRAGATE — [Verb] To wreck or cause the ruin of something, especially in a manner reminiscent of a shipwreck. Borrowed from Latin naufragātus, the perfect passive participle of naufragō ('to become shipwrecked'), from navis ('ship') + frangere ('to break'). Unlike 'sink,' which specifies mere submersion, or 'destroy,' a broad term for total damage, to naufragate is to inflict a ruin of catastrophic, maritime architecture—a splintering against the rocks. It is the storm that shatters a hull on the reef, the cold salt seeping into the hold of one's affairs, the single revelation that breaks a carefully constructed life upon the rocks—the intimate physics of a world breaking against an immovable fact.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin naufragātus, perfect passive participle of naufragō (“to become shipwrecked”).
verb
- To wreck (something).“All which Proposals we are resolved by Gods gracious assistance with unanimity, constancy, and activity, in our several stations, with our lives and fortunes, to prosecute and accomplish, to our powers, by all just and legal wayes, with what ever else may conduce to the Peace, Safety, Unitie, Wealth, Prosperity of our Lacerated, Macerated, Naufragated Church and State; […]”